A meeting between furniture designer T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings and Susan and Eleftherios Saridis, owners of Saridis of Athens, one of Europe’s finest cabinetmaking shops in 1960, brought to a collaboration that resulted in a series of furniture modeled after ancient Greek furniture, dated from the sixth to the fourth centuries B.C. It was this collection that consequently brought ancient Greek furniture to the mainstream of contemporary design of that time, with pieces such as Klismos chairs, chests, and stools, copied from vases, plaques, and architectural friezes.